Clarion 1940-02-07 Vol 19 No 08

Miss Platts
The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XIX No. 8
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) February 7, 1940
1940 SPIRE PRODUCTION BEGINS
New Staff Reveals Registration
Annual Schedule
Brings New
Bethelites
19 Church
Tour Shown
For Chorus
Eastern Trip Takes
Men Three Weeks
For three weeks, the Male chorus
will tour through Eastern states to
sing in 19 churches. Concerts will
be given in 10 states during the
Spring vacation.
The first week, beginning on
Monday, March 25, the singers
will visit Rockford, Illinois
(Temple church) ; Detroit,
Michigan; Rochester, N ew
York; Worcester, Massachu.
setts (First), and Boston.
Beginning the second week, they
will sing two concerts on Sunday,
at Quincy, and Brockton, Massa-chusetts.
They then go to Provi-dence,
Rhode Island; Hartford, ,
Meriden, and Bridgeport, Connecti-cut;
and Brooklyn, New York.
The last week will find the
men in Sunday appearances at
Monte Clair, New Jersey, and
New York city, to follow with
programs in Wilmington, Dela-ware;
McKeesport, Pennsyl-vania;
Youngstown and Cleve.
land, Ohio; and Chicago (En-glewood).
On Thursday, March 14, the male
chorus will sing a concert at the
First Swedish Covenant church, St.
Paul. A post-concert program will
be presented in the Isle's Baptist
church following their Spring trip.
New 'Cut' System
Allows No Excuse
"Cutting" classes will be a rare
thing because of action the faculty
took last week to reduce such oc-currences.
A resolution reads as fol-lows:
"That we go back to the
old system of taking roll call.
If the number of unexcused ab-sences
exceeds the number of
credit hours in a course, the
semester grade will be lowered
one letter per cut. An unex-cused
absence on the day pre-ceding
or following a holiday
is to be considered a double
`cut.'"
Miss Effie Nelson, secretary of
the faculty, explained further that
failure to respond to roll call will
constitute an absence.
A few examples of excused
absences would be serious ill-
Campus Calendar
TONIGHT
College club.
FRIDAY NIGHT
Basketball, Bethany, here.
MONDAY
Lincoln's birthday, Holiday.
WEDNESDAY, February 14
Alexis Literary society.
THURSDAY, February 15
Bethel Women's association.
FRIDAY, February 16
Basketball, Albert Lea, here.
School Hires Bus
For All-student Trip
There will be about 15 seats
available for students on a char-tered
bus when the basketball team
goes to Rochester, Minnesota, to
play a conference game with the
junior college there in the new
municipal auditorium, Dean Emery
Johnson announced.
The date for the proposed
all-school trip is Friday, Feb-ruary
23. There should be be-tween
50 and 75 that will at-tend
the basketball game to
see the Bethel team play Roch-ester,
according to the Dean.
The fare for a round-trip on the
school bus will be $1.25 per per-son.
There will also be a charge
of 25 cents admission at the audi-torium.
Students are also remind-ed
that they will have to eat din-ner
in Rochester.
Freshman class officers an-nounce
that they are planning a
program for March 15 in the form
of a radio event to raise money for
their class budget.
The evening's outline in-cludes
an amateur hour, com-munity
sing, news flashes,
Church of the air, a take-off on
some comical program, and
commercial "plugs," Gene Ny.
man, president, announced.
Refreshments will also be served
after the entertainment.
The advertising and tickets com-mittee
is headed by Cliff Bjork-lund.
The others are: Carol Eng-wall,
Betty Danielson, Louise Joon-son,
Viola Carlberg, Dale Bjork,
Lowell Marquardt, and Merle Sjo-lund.
ness, death or serious illness
in the immediate family, and
participation in extra-curricular
activities outside of the city.
"Oversleeping" will serve no ex-
With some 25 students working
on the 1940 SPIRE, the Student
Publications office‘ has become a
busy place. From general commit-tee
meetings to private consulta-tions,
there is a serious aspect per-vading
the room.
Carol Jane Engwall and
Glenn Anderson, as Editor and
Business manager respectively,
were appointed by the Student
council to be in charge of the
production of this year's an-nual.
Their work will be su-pervised
by Lemuel Petersen,
as Editor of Student Publica.
tions, and Stanley Rendahl, in
a similar capacity on the busi-ness
staff.
"This year's book will be larger
and better than formerly. We plan
to publish a
yearb o o k
that will be
worth-while,"
the
staff prom-ises.
Relea s e
of the 1940
SPIRE has
been set
t e n tative-ly
for May 29, according to Peter-sen.
Students who have paid their
activities fees will be charged
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Muriel Petersen is chairman
of a decorations and properties
committee. Assisting her are:
Bernard Hammerbeck, Wilbur
Ogren, Harriette Fossum, and
Arlene Johnson.
The program will be under the
direction of the cabinet, consisting
of Nyman, Miss Engwall, Virginia
Carlson, and Glen Soule. They put
out a call for any student talent
that may be worked into the above
program.
The sophomore class is planning
a program for later in the Spring.
The second-year committee is com-posed
of Joyce Johnson, chairman,
Olga Anderson, Viola Waihela,
Don Johnson, and Lemuel Peter-sen.
cuse, as will neither "Street car
was late," "I had to work," nor
"One of my instructors detained
me." Miss Nelson indicates that
these all can be remedied.
Former Students
Enter Nursing School
Several new students have been
added to the rolls of Bethel for the
second semester. They are to be
welcomed and made to feel one
with us.
New students are: Merriam
"Mike" Olson from Redtop,
Minn. (a member of the Op-stead
church) and Marjorie
Lundholm from the St. Paul
First Swedish church. Both
are taking a combined College
and Bible course.
Chester Stripe, a member of the
Immanuel 'church of Waukegan,
Ill., is new in the Seminary. He
has completed 3 1/2 years work at
Lake Forest college in Illinois.
John Bowman of St. Paul is a spe-cial
student in sociology.
Blanche Sherman from An-gora,
Minn., is back to school
for a part-time course.
Eight students failed to re-regis-ter
for the second semester, accord-ing
to Miss Edith Larson. Lorraine
Cooper discontinued school because
of ill health.
Juanita Johnson, along with
Marjorie Lager and Marie
Dahlberg, former students, will
enter nurses' training as a
member of the February class
at the Mounds Park sanitorium.
Other Bethelites at this institu-tion
are: Ethel Ahlquist, Doris Mo-berg,
and Olivia Geide.
Publications Staff
Promote Dinner
Some 35 journalistically-minded
students gathered for a Publica-tions
dinner in the Boarding club
dining hall last evening to promote
enthusiasm for the SPIRE produc-tion.
Miss Lydia Mitlyng, publica-tions
adviser at Minnehaha
academy, was a special speak-er.
She developed an address
on the theme, "Do's And Don't's
In Yearbook Planning," indicat-ing
some of the problems. to be
met in yearbook publication.
Glenn Anderson, SPIRE Business
manager, served as toastmaster of
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Unique Program
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COMMENTS FEATURES
'ROUND CAMPUS
Notice! A closed-in booth is to
be installed in the German class
room. For whom? Doris Molander.
Why? Well, ah—Dean Nordell is
her neighbor.
Looking for a good Boarding club
waiter? Suggestion—Lloyd Shold.
He has lately developed the altru-istic
trend of clearing the table for
each and every fellow "stomach-stretcher."
C. E. Carlson (to sociology be-ginners)
: Has any one had a so-ciology
course, previous to this?
"Sofa" Davenport: Yes, I have—
"Better Homes And Gardens."
George Ohsberg has developed a
"sweet" technique. We hear he's
been dishing out candy and cookies
to girls of late. What has hap-pened
to our old-time woman-hater?
Hearty welcome to all our new
students!! And fellows—have you
gotten a peck at that cute little
Margie Lundholm?
Miss Effie Nelson (from German
into English) : ". . . and I ordered
your mother to take a spoonful of
raspberry juice. . ."
Dallas West: Boy! This is the
berries!
SOCIAL
By Muriel Petersen
Friday, January 26
Whoopee! Exams are all done
for this time! To celebrate Miriam
Johanson and Joyce Davenport had
a party tonight after the Chatau-quan
program. Jack Anderson's in-terpretations
of "Mr Gud skall ha
pengar skall magen ha mat," and
"Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat"
were highlights of the evening. Re-freshments
came from all parts of
the country: Brooklyn, next door.
Monday, January 29
"What's the matter with the fac-ulty?"
"They're all right!"
"Who says so?"
"Everybody that was on the
sleigh ride!"
It's no wonder that Miss Platts
felt as if her joints needed some
oil on Tuesday, and that C. E.
Carlson couldn't understand why
he didn't have to wash his face
Tuesday morning because Miss
Platts and Miss Sabel had done
such a good job of it. That was
the evening for Seminary fellows
to take it out on jaysee students,
for Romeos to protect their Juliets
(latest report: Rodney Kephart
gallantly performed this duty for
"Baby Bunting"), and for every-body
to show his appreciation to
the faculty for his semester grade.
Wednesday, January 31
Viola W.: "Tell me, do you love
me?"
Bill H.: "—?—"
Only that was just a game played
at "Snuffy" Smith's house to-night.
"Snuffy" was feeling a little
"down," so a gospel team extended
its mission by doing some cheer up
work. Winston, have you guessed
your "Piggy" yet?
Eck-to/dal ea."
Word of Appreciation
Northern Baptist Convention
Office of the Convention President
January 27, 1940.
Dear Lemuel:
I was very much pleased to see a copy of "THE BETHEL CLARION."
A splendid piece of editing and printing.
Your school has many line friends across the country as I discover.
My best wishes,
—E. A. Fridell.
It is letters and compliments like this that make an Editor (or any
person for that matter) enjoy his work. The students and faculty mem-bers
of Bethel have been very gracious to us this year as! we tried to go
about our work. We wish to thank you all publicly for all the kind
words, thoughts, and even criticisms. We welcome your comments at all
times, so that we might serve you the better.
To the CLARION staff members and others Whom we've worked with,
we express our appreciation. May we continue to do as well.
However, we begin a new semester—we have much ahead of us. The
staffs of the Student Publications department have outlined a mass of
work for themselves. We must produce a new and better SPIRE by
May 29, continue to publish the CLARION bi-weekly, and take part in
other school and outside affairs.
The total student staff comprises about 35 names. We would like to
mention them here individually. It will be with their capable assistance
that the Editors and Business staff will fulfill their tasks. (Look at the
"masthead" below and find out who these are.
Defending the 'Cut' System
Are we students justified for all the criticisms that we make about the
new "cut" system? We have certainly done plenty of complaining.
The faculty must know what they are doing. Have we failed to regu-late
our personal habits so as to interfere with the best interests of our
life? It rather looks that way.
Perhaps, there isn't much missed in "cutting" class just once in a
while. But it is a devastating habit to get into. In the business world,
we make no complaints about getting to work at 7 or 8 a. m. But here
we think it is outrageous to have to be punctual.
No, we don't want to be poured into a mould with the rest—we want
to develop individually. We don't want to conform to everything put up
to us. But is not the matter of discipline worthy of consideration? It
is the man in the world who can meet the "deadline" and be depended
upon that gets ahead. No matter how promising he may be; if he can-not
be trusted, he is soon eliminated.
Our faculty isn't trying to be tyrannical. We believe that they are
seeking the best interests of the students.
May We Say That
Something has happened to our Men's Recreation club and its ping-pong
tourney? Certainly, this should be a worthwhile project. Let's
see something done about it.
We would put in a word of welcome to all of the new students on the
campus. Here's hoping that your stay here will be as,happy and blessed
as ours has been.
The CLARION staff expresses its sympathy to Dorothy Hademann at
the loss of her father.
The Bethel Clarion
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 ,North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Official school paper of Bethel Institute.
Published by students bi-weekly except July, August,
and September.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
EDITORIAL STAFF
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS EDITOR Lemuel Petersen
CAMPUS EDITOR Dale Bjork
SPORTS Bernard Hammerbeck, Elna Finstrom, and Vernon Pearson
FEATURES Carol Jane Engwall, Gladys Hanson, Mary Ann Liljenstrom,
Muriel Petersen, Leone Smith, Helen Sorenson, and Viola Waihela.
NEWS REPORTERS.... Glenn Anderson, Betty Danielson, Dalphy Fagerstrom,
Gunnar Hoglund, Archie Johnson, Miriam Johanson, Lloyd Shold,
Sara Mae Swenson, Marvin Toews, Robert Wallin, and Dorothy
Webster.
TYPIST Grace Widen EDITORIAL ADVISOR Miss Enid Platts
BUSINESS STAFF
Stanley Rendahl
Doris Jane Eggleston
Archie Johnson
Dean Emery Johnson
Anderson Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, at the postoffice at St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the-Act of March 3, 1879.
DEVOTIONAL
By Ned Holmgren •
Ephesians 3:14-21. Concerning
Paul's prayer in the third chapter
of Ephesians, Dr. W. Graham
Scroggie writes : "This is one of
the great Scriptures, the Holy
,Spirit's words of the first order,
and is, perhaps, the most fervent,
comprehensive and sublime prayer
in the Bible." Paul reveals, with his
characteristic depth and intensity
of spirit, the object or goal of his
prayer in the words, ". .. that ye
may be filled unto all the fulness of
God" (vs. 19b).
By his suggestion that every
Christian can be filled to plenty
with all that God is—in His holi-ness,
His love, His power—Paul
stabs our conscience with the sense
of spiritual poverty. And since, it
is God who so freely offers us His
fulness, is it not sin that we make
ourselves poor by refusing what
He offers? Indeed, spiritual pover-ty
is sin! What, then, is the solu-tion
to this particular problem of
sin? It lies in the three-fold formu-la
found within the verses which
precede the statement of the goal:
(1) ". . . that ye may be strength-ened
with power through His Spirit
in the inward man" (vs. 16).
(2) "that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith . . ." (vs.
17).
(3) "and to know the love of
Christ which passeth knowledge
. ." (vs. 19a).
This, therefore, is the proper
equation for a consistent Christian
life: The power of the Spirit and
the presence of Christ plus a knowl-edge
of the love of God equals a
life filled unto all the fulness of
God.
POESY
Winter Wind
To-day I walked against the wind,
Strong and boistrous in its desire
To get somewhere, just any where,
with no destiny in mind.
It just moved on, reckless, un-daunted
in its course;
Unthoughtful of others,
Pushing, forcing, wanting nothing
but its own way.
I could not see it, touch it, nor yet
find it.
I only felt its breath as on it swept,
Unmindful of us humans, bowed,
Submissive to its will.—H. S.
Publications Staff Promotes
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the dinner. Those who presented
toasts were: Carol Jane Engwall,
SPIRE Editor; Gene Nyman,
!SPIRE Advertising manager; and
Lemuel Petersen, Editor of Student
Publications.
Dean Nordell will head the Col-lege
club this coming semester. He
will be assisted by Lloyd 'Shold,
vice-president; Dalphy Fagerstrom,
treasurer; and Annabelle Sherman,
secretary.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BUSINESS MANAGER
CIRCULATION MANAGER
CIRCULATION ASSISTANT
BUSINESS, ADVISOR
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Dr. Hagstrom Discloses Life of Many Interests
Team Revamping B. Danielson Uses PREXY
Makes Changes Talent to Advantage
By Dale Bjork
Administrates Bethel
Through 27 Years
Assisted by 57 second-semester
gospel team members, Olaf Nelson,
Leonard Hultgren, Dean Berry,
Rodney Kephart, and Dalphy Fa-gerstrom
will head the work of
witnessing for Jesus Christ as a
phase of the Religious council ac-tivities.
Rogers announced that spe-cial
gospel teams will be going
out Sundays this Spring to con-..
duct services in surrounding
rural churches. These groups
will travel in the gospel team
bus.
Paul Lundgren, treasurer of the
council, indicates that pledges are
being paid quite well. However, he
urges unpaid members to take care
of this soon.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to the members of the
Boarding Club and other students
for the dinner given in our honor;
also to Dr. Hagstrom, Rev. Erikson
and Mr. Fleming for their words of
congratulation.
—Mr. and Mrs. Alex Beck
ONWARD
TO THE HONOR ROLL
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Snelling-Como Garage
GLOBE OIL STATION
1282 North Snelling Ave.
Open All Night. Midway 2757
C. G. JOHNSON
Men's Shop—Snappy Toggery
Discount to Students
504 No. Snelling Ave.
near University. Midway 6491
Rudeen Food Market
FAIRWAY FINE FOODS
Free Delivery—NE 7469
Snelling at Thomas
When In MINNEAPOLIS
Make ELIM Your Home
ELIM BAPTIST CHURCH
Madison at 13th N. E.
REV. J. G. JOHNSON, Pastor
C. J. & H. W. ANDERSON
JEWELERS
OPTOM ETRISTS
1573 University Ave.
Midway 9910
Bethel Baptist Church
REV. K. E. BYLEEN
24th St. and 28th Ave. So.
Minneapolis, Minn.
EVERYBODY WELCOME!
In this column we say, "Hats off
to Miss Betty Danielson." She is
the individual who has painted and
sketched the artistic posters which
appear frequently on the bulletin
boards.
Although Betty always has had
a "knack" for art work, she first
learned the technique of drawing
and painting while in junior high
school. She received a more ad-vanced
course in the art depart-ment
at Verona high school.
An incentive to Betty's inter.
est in art came when one of
her sketches was chosen to be
placed over one of the foun-tains
in the halls of her high
school. After this encourage-ment,
she became especially
interested in oil paintings and
painting became her hobby.
Instead of buying canvasses to
paint ion, she learned from an art
teacher how to make her own. She
would take a cardboard of the de-sired
size and then shape and paste
window shading over it. These can-vasses
proved to be splendid back-ground
for her oil paintings.
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Refreshments
PRESIDENT ARVID G. HAG-STROM
is in the East this week
attending a bimonthly meeting of
the Baptist Foreign Mission board.
He will also speak tonight at the
anniversary of the Monte Clair
church in New Jersey. Hagstrom
attended a Bible teacher's confer-ence
in Chicago and preached in
Cleveland over the weekend.
Do Your Grades
Rank With Average?
Each Junior College student
earned on the average 2 1/2 C's.
Taken on the whole, only one out
of four students earned one A. (Ed.
note: We know some that got more
than one A, so woe be to the rest
of us.) There was an F given for
every seventh student. And there
were enough B's to give one to
each student.
If there had been nine peo-ple,
carrying four classes each,
with an A average, there would
have been no A's for the rest
of us (and plenty of us didn't
get them). Again, if there were
82 people with a straight C re-port
card with four classes
each, the rest of us would
have had to get higher or low-er
marks. I wonder if there
were five people who "flunked"
out completely?—then you and
I don't have to worry about
getting an F.
Almost half the total grades giv-en
at the end of the first semester
in the Junior College were C's.
The number of A's was a 5.08 per-centage
of the total. And to speak
of the worst, the failures were 3.05
per cent of the whole.
In all, there were 689 indi-vidual
class grades recorded in
the office. Of these, 329 were
C's.
The others were as follows: A's,
35; B's, 153; D's, 89; F's, 21. Con,
17; and Inc, 45, according to Miss
Edith Larson.
How did you compare in this?
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4209 Standish Ave. — Minneapolis, Minn .
None will doubt that President
Arvid G. Hagstrom has accom-plished
the goal and task which he
has set for his life. In a recent in-terview,
he told of his vital inter-est
in youth, their training and de-velopment.
And he also indicated
how that he had wished early in
life to make it his major contribu-tion—
to help young people.
Our Prexy is a man of versa-tile
interests and activities.
Besides being head of Bethel
Institute for 27 years and in
the ministry for 48 years, he
has led or taken active part in
many another organization.
At present, Dr. Hagstrom is mod-erator
of the Minnesota Baptist
convention and is a member along
with 30 other prominent Baptists
of the American Baptist Foreign
Mission board. He is also a mem-ber
of the Committee for the Co-ordination
of Foreign-speaking Bap-tists,
the American-Scandinavian
Association for the Promotion of
Scandinavian Culture, a similar so-ciety
for the advancement of Swed-ish
culture, and the American-
Swedish Historical society. Our
President is also secretary-treasur-er
and trustee of the Northwestern
Baptist Hospital association and
holds similar positions in a group
to raise funds for needy patients
for the hospitals.
Dr. Hagstrom hopes that
Bethel can secure better physi-cal
equipment and increase its
faculty so as to do a larger
work through correspondence,
Bible courses, Christian culture
classes, and post-graduate
courses for ministers.
Hagstrom's main diversion is
reading in the fields of biography,
history, and psychology. He spends
on the average some 10 to 12 hours
a week at extra reading. He is
also a golf and fishing enthusiast
in the Summer seasons.
In a statement on the Swedish
Baptists, Hagstrom is convinced
that the Conference should remain
intact, so as to do a greater work
and make a larger impact on the
world. However, he urges tolera-tion
and cooperation for all other
groups of Christians for the ad-vancement
of the Kingdom.
FIRST SWEDISH
BAPTIST CHURCH
A. E. SJOLUND, Pastor
13th Ave. So. at 8th St.
Minneapolis
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Hard Trip and Injuries Produce
Harmful Results For Cagers
Dean Johnson
Some extension will be made in
the curriculum of the social science
department next Fall, Dean Emery
Johnson announced.
He also reports that plans for
the Women's dormitory are pro-gressing.
Originally, the building
was conceived for 32 occupants.
However, this will undoubtedly be
enlarged in view of the 29 women
now rooming in private homes, he
added.
Indians To Engage
In Fighting Games
When our Bethel quintet takes
the floor this Friday evening
against the high-flying Bethany
five, the Indians will have but one
thought in their minds—revenge.
The recent road trip eliminated
the Bethelites from the champion-ship
running, yet the Indians are
still in a position to do plenty of
damage.
On Jan. 20th, the Bethel five was
leading the league undefeated; that
evening they invaded the Bethany
floor and pitched one of the fiercest
battles of the current season. The
Bethanites, led by huge "Slug"
Guldberg, gave the Indians all they
could match and even a little more.
It was in that game that our frosh
star, Gene Nyman, received a foot
injury that benched him for the
season.
The pace was fast and the bas-kets
were bombarded fiercely as
the two teams fought their way
through the 40 minutes of play, but
when the smoke of the final gun
cleared away the Bethanites were
victorious, 53-46, and Bethel had
been dropped from the ranks of
the undefeated.
Tonight the positions are re-versed;
Bethany is still in the
championship race, and Bethel is
just one game out of the running.
The Bethany five will be slight
favorites to twin, but our Adam-coached
Indians will be prepared
for the wildest game of the season,
and a prediction as to the outcome
would be very difficult to foretell.
Friday, Feb. 16, the Albert Lea
quintet will invade the local gym
for a cage contest with the Bethel-ites.
Bethel was an easy victor in
their first engagement, but the Al-bert
Lea team has improved con-siderably
since then and a close
battle is expected.
1940 Spire
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only $1, the business staff an-nounces.
Already 10 collectors
have been appointed to see
each student in school. These
are: Betty Danielson, Dalphy
Fagerstrom, Elizabeth Larson,
Bob Hovinen, Archie Johnson,
Rawlin Johnson, Mary Ann Lil-jenstrom,
Dale Bjork, John
Lindquist, and Gunnar Hog-lund.
This subscription amount
must be paid before Friday,
March 8, to secure a book.
Plans have also been developed
whereby the student body can help
raise money so that a better SPIRE
might be produced. Bethelites are
urged to send letters to their
friends urging them to subscribe.
Form letters are available for this.
For the price of $2 a friend of
Bethel can receive a copy and have
his name printed in a Friendship
section of the annual. However,
others can buy the book for a fee
of $1.25.
To in increase enthusiasm, a
prize of $5 will be awarded
the person in school who turns
over to the SPIRE business
staff the largest income, pro-viding
he raises $20 or more,
the Business manager announc-es.
To all students who re.
ceive $10 or more from their
friends, the annual will be
awarded free.
These letters should be sent im-mediately,
Anderson urges. All
money for books must be returned
by Wednesday, March 20 (just be-fore
Spring vacation). Arlene
Johnson, Lloyd Shold, and Paul
Lundgren have been appointed to
push this drive in the freshman,
sophomore classes, and the Semi-nary,
respectively.
All the letters sent out by
students will be stamped by
the SPIRE staff. However,
they must be turned in at the
Student Publications office for
checking before mailing.
Working also on the SPIRE staff
are: Joyce Johnson, as Assistant
editor; Constance Swanson, Art
editor; Helen Sorenson and Elea-nor
Jacobson, Editorial assistants;
and Clifford Bjorklund, photogra-phy.
The business staff further in-cludes:
Gene Nyman, Advertising
manager; Doris Molander, Adver-tising
assistant; Muriel Petersen,
Circulation manager; and Sara Mae
Swenson, staff stenographer. Fac-ulty
advisers for the production are
Cagerettes
Match Here
Friday night the women hoop-sters
will play the Minnesota Farm
school coeds here in a prelimini-nary
game to the varsity match
with Bethany.
Led by Opal Palmquist, who
scored 6 points, the Bethelites won
their first game on January 30,
16-14, at the Minnesota Agricul-tural
school. Elizabeth Larson and
Marie Larson swished two buckets
to tie for second scoring honors.
The cagerettes also played the
St. Paul Weit Side Neighborhood
house team recently, losing, 19-7.
Mary Ann Liljenstrom and Marie
Larson led the Bethel scorers.
Miss Enid Platts and Dean Emery
Johnson.
This year's graduates must
be photographed and have their
prints in by March 7, Miss
Engwall announces. Arrange-ments
will be made for this
soon.
The staff feels competent to put
out a SPIRE that Bethel will be
proud of. Work on the publication
is moving along satisfactorily, ac-cording
to Petersen. However, the
cooperation of the whole student
body is anticipated to alleviate dif-ficulties.
NEstor 6311
Peerless Cleaning and
Dyeing
Bethel Representative
ALRICK BLOMQUIST
Room 207
THE CHURCH WITH
A HANDSHAKE
Prospect Park Baptist
Franklin and Emerald
Minneapolis
HAMLINE HARDWARE CO.
GENERAL HARDWARE
F. 0. Hagen J. W. Hagen
755 No. Snelling Ave., St. Paul
Central Baptist Church
Roy and Shield St.
REV. ERIC ANDERSON
St. Paul Minnesota
By Bernard Hammerbeck
Wednesday, January 31st marked the end of a disastrous road trip for
the Bethel Indians as they bowed to a strong Nettleton Commercial
college team at Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Other games on the tour were
conference engagements with Tracy J. C. and Worthington J. C.
The squad arrived at Tracy late Monday afternoon, Jan. 29th, and
the evening's tilt with
Tracy J. C. showed the
results of the day's trip.
The Bethelites were
unable to hit the hoop
with any sort of accu-racy
and retired at the
half with a 4 point de-ficit.
The second half
showed no improve-ment
on the part of the
Bethelites and the Tra-cy
quintet increased
their lead to six points
for a 52-46 victory.
Leading scorer for the
Indians was Don Johnson with 20
points.
Tuesday evening's encounter
with the league-leading Worthing- •
ton five proved to be a fiercely con-tested
battle even though the Blue-jays
won by a substantial margin.
The Worthington club was rangy
and well stocked with reserves
while the Bethel five was badly
handicapped by the injury to Cap-tain
Don Johnson. The first half
started fast and the Bluejays re-tired
at the half with the score in
their favor, 28-27; however as the
second half progressed the reserve
strength of the Bluejays overcame
the fast wilting Bethelites and the
Worthington team won by a score
of 59-43.
The Wednesday night engage-ment
at the Coliseum in Sioux Falls
proved to be too much for the Beth-elites
as a rangy squad from Net-tleton
Commercial college swamped
the Indians, 64-26. The Bethel squad
was noticeably tired from the gru-elling
trip, and their lack of height
proved to be a great handicap as
the tall N.C.C. lads piled up a huge
lead.
Personnel of the traveling party
included Coach Bill Adam, Man-ager
Francis Otto, Driver Bertil
Friberg, and eight varsity players:
Del Peterson, Johnson, Gus Ferre,
Gordie Peterson, Stan Paulson, Bob
Hovinen, Lowell Marquardt, and
Bernie Hammerbeck.
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Miss Platts
The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XIX No. 8
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) February 7, 1940
1940 SPIRE PRODUCTION BEGINS
New Staff Reveals Registration
Annual Schedule
Brings New
Bethelites
19 Church
Tour Shown
For Chorus
Eastern Trip Takes
Men Three Weeks
For three weeks, the Male chorus
will tour through Eastern states to
sing in 19 churches. Concerts will
be given in 10 states during the
Spring vacation.
The first week, beginning on
Monday, March 25, the singers
will visit Rockford, Illinois
(Temple church) ; Detroit,
Michigan; Rochester, N ew
York; Worcester, Massachu.
setts (First), and Boston.
Beginning the second week, they
will sing two concerts on Sunday,
at Quincy, and Brockton, Massa-chusetts.
They then go to Provi-dence,
Rhode Island; Hartford, ,
Meriden, and Bridgeport, Connecti-cut;
and Brooklyn, New York.
The last week will find the
men in Sunday appearances at
Monte Clair, New Jersey, and
New York city, to follow with
programs in Wilmington, Dela-ware;
McKeesport, Pennsyl-vania;
Youngstown and Cleve.
land, Ohio; and Chicago (En-glewood).
On Thursday, March 14, the male
chorus will sing a concert at the
First Swedish Covenant church, St.
Paul. A post-concert program will
be presented in the Isle's Baptist
church following their Spring trip.
New 'Cut' System
Allows No Excuse
"Cutting" classes will be a rare
thing because of action the faculty
took last week to reduce such oc-currences.
A resolution reads as fol-lows:
"That we go back to the
old system of taking roll call.
If the number of unexcused ab-sences
exceeds the number of
credit hours in a course, the
semester grade will be lowered
one letter per cut. An unex-cused
absence on the day pre-ceding
or following a holiday
is to be considered a double
`cut.'"
Miss Effie Nelson, secretary of
the faculty, explained further that
failure to respond to roll call will
constitute an absence.
A few examples of excused
absences would be serious ill-
Campus Calendar
TONIGHT
College club.
FRIDAY NIGHT
Basketball, Bethany, here.
MONDAY
Lincoln's birthday, Holiday.
WEDNESDAY, February 14
Alexis Literary society.
THURSDAY, February 15
Bethel Women's association.
FRIDAY, February 16
Basketball, Albert Lea, here.
School Hires Bus
For All-student Trip
There will be about 15 seats
available for students on a char-tered
bus when the basketball team
goes to Rochester, Minnesota, to
play a conference game with the
junior college there in the new
municipal auditorium, Dean Emery
Johnson announced.
The date for the proposed
all-school trip is Friday, Feb-ruary
23. There should be be-tween
50 and 75 that will at-tend
the basketball game to
see the Bethel team play Roch-ester,
according to the Dean.
The fare for a round-trip on the
school bus will be $1.25 per per-son.
There will also be a charge
of 25 cents admission at the audi-torium.
Students are also remind-ed
that they will have to eat din-ner
in Rochester.
Freshman class officers an-nounce
that they are planning a
program for March 15 in the form
of a radio event to raise money for
their class budget.
The evening's outline in-cludes
an amateur hour, com-munity
sing, news flashes,
Church of the air, a take-off on
some comical program, and
commercial "plugs," Gene Ny.
man, president, announced.
Refreshments will also be served
after the entertainment.
The advertising and tickets com-mittee
is headed by Cliff Bjork-lund.
The others are: Carol Eng-wall,
Betty Danielson, Louise Joon-son,
Viola Carlberg, Dale Bjork,
Lowell Marquardt, and Merle Sjo-lund.
ness, death or serious illness
in the immediate family, and
participation in extra-curricular
activities outside of the city.
"Oversleeping" will serve no ex-
With some 25 students working
on the 1940 SPIRE, the Student
Publications office‘ has become a
busy place. From general commit-tee
meetings to private consulta-tions,
there is a serious aspect per-vading
the room.
Carol Jane Engwall and
Glenn Anderson, as Editor and
Business manager respectively,
were appointed by the Student
council to be in charge of the
production of this year's an-nual.
Their work will be su-pervised
by Lemuel Petersen,
as Editor of Student Publica.
tions, and Stanley Rendahl, in
a similar capacity on the busi-ness
staff.
"This year's book will be larger
and better than formerly. We plan
to publish a
yearb o o k
that will be
worth-while,"
the
staff prom-ises.
Relea s e
of the 1940
SPIRE has
been set
t e n tative-ly
for May 29, according to Peter-sen.
Students who have paid their
activities fees will be charged
(Continued on page 4)
Muriel Petersen is chairman
of a decorations and properties
committee. Assisting her are:
Bernard Hammerbeck, Wilbur
Ogren, Harriette Fossum, and
Arlene Johnson.
The program will be under the
direction of the cabinet, consisting
of Nyman, Miss Engwall, Virginia
Carlson, and Glen Soule. They put
out a call for any student talent
that may be worked into the above
program.
The sophomore class is planning
a program for later in the Spring.
The second-year committee is com-posed
of Joyce Johnson, chairman,
Olga Anderson, Viola Waihela,
Don Johnson, and Lemuel Peter-sen.
cuse, as will neither "Street car
was late," "I had to work," nor
"One of my instructors detained
me." Miss Nelson indicates that
these all can be remedied.
Former Students
Enter Nursing School
Several new students have been
added to the rolls of Bethel for the
second semester. They are to be
welcomed and made to feel one
with us.
New students are: Merriam
"Mike" Olson from Redtop,
Minn. (a member of the Op-stead
church) and Marjorie
Lundholm from the St. Paul
First Swedish church. Both
are taking a combined College
and Bible course.
Chester Stripe, a member of the
Immanuel 'church of Waukegan,
Ill., is new in the Seminary. He
has completed 3 1/2 years work at
Lake Forest college in Illinois.
John Bowman of St. Paul is a spe-cial
student in sociology.
Blanche Sherman from An-gora,
Minn., is back to school
for a part-time course.
Eight students failed to re-regis-ter
for the second semester, accord-ing
to Miss Edith Larson. Lorraine
Cooper discontinued school because
of ill health.
Juanita Johnson, along with
Marjorie Lager and Marie
Dahlberg, former students, will
enter nurses' training as a
member of the February class
at the Mounds Park sanitorium.
Other Bethelites at this institu-tion
are: Ethel Ahlquist, Doris Mo-berg,
and Olivia Geide.
Publications Staff
Promote Dinner
Some 35 journalistically-minded
students gathered for a Publica-tions
dinner in the Boarding club
dining hall last evening to promote
enthusiasm for the SPIRE produc-tion.
Miss Lydia Mitlyng, publica-tions
adviser at Minnehaha
academy, was a special speak-er.
She developed an address
on the theme, "Do's And Don't's
In Yearbook Planning," indicat-ing
some of the problems. to be
met in yearbook publication.
Glenn Anderson, SPIRE Business
manager, served as toastmaster of
(Continued on page 2)
Radio Night Frosh To Stage ■
▪
Unique Program
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
COMMENTS FEATURES
'ROUND CAMPUS
Notice! A closed-in booth is to
be installed in the German class
room. For whom? Doris Molander.
Why? Well, ah—Dean Nordell is
her neighbor.
Looking for a good Boarding club
waiter? Suggestion—Lloyd Shold.
He has lately developed the altru-istic
trend of clearing the table for
each and every fellow "stomach-stretcher."
C. E. Carlson (to sociology be-ginners)
: Has any one had a so-ciology
course, previous to this?
"Sofa" Davenport: Yes, I have—
"Better Homes And Gardens."
George Ohsberg has developed a
"sweet" technique. We hear he's
been dishing out candy and cookies
to girls of late. What has hap-pened
to our old-time woman-hater?
Hearty welcome to all our new
students!! And fellows—have you
gotten a peck at that cute little
Margie Lundholm?
Miss Effie Nelson (from German
into English) : ". . . and I ordered
your mother to take a spoonful of
raspberry juice. . ."
Dallas West: Boy! This is the
berries!
SOCIAL
By Muriel Petersen
Friday, January 26
Whoopee! Exams are all done
for this time! To celebrate Miriam
Johanson and Joyce Davenport had
a party tonight after the Chatau-quan
program. Jack Anderson's in-terpretations
of "Mr Gud skall ha
pengar skall magen ha mat," and
"Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat"
were highlights of the evening. Re-freshments
came from all parts of
the country: Brooklyn, next door.
Monday, January 29
"What's the matter with the fac-ulty?"
"They're all right!"
"Who says so?"
"Everybody that was on the
sleigh ride!"
It's no wonder that Miss Platts
felt as if her joints needed some
oil on Tuesday, and that C. E.
Carlson couldn't understand why
he didn't have to wash his face
Tuesday morning because Miss
Platts and Miss Sabel had done
such a good job of it. That was
the evening for Seminary fellows
to take it out on jaysee students,
for Romeos to protect their Juliets
(latest report: Rodney Kephart
gallantly performed this duty for
"Baby Bunting"), and for every-body
to show his appreciation to
the faculty for his semester grade.
Wednesday, January 31
Viola W.: "Tell me, do you love
me?"
Bill H.: "—?—"
Only that was just a game played
at "Snuffy" Smith's house to-night.
"Snuffy" was feeling a little
"down," so a gospel team extended
its mission by doing some cheer up
work. Winston, have you guessed
your "Piggy" yet?
Eck-to/dal ea."
Word of Appreciation
Northern Baptist Convention
Office of the Convention President
January 27, 1940.
Dear Lemuel:
I was very much pleased to see a copy of "THE BETHEL CLARION."
A splendid piece of editing and printing.
Your school has many line friends across the country as I discover.
My best wishes,
—E. A. Fridell.
It is letters and compliments like this that make an Editor (or any
person for that matter) enjoy his work. The students and faculty mem-bers
of Bethel have been very gracious to us this year as! we tried to go
about our work. We wish to thank you all publicly for all the kind
words, thoughts, and even criticisms. We welcome your comments at all
times, so that we might serve you the better.
To the CLARION staff members and others Whom we've worked with,
we express our appreciation. May we continue to do as well.
However, we begin a new semester—we have much ahead of us. The
staffs of the Student Publications department have outlined a mass of
work for themselves. We must produce a new and better SPIRE by
May 29, continue to publish the CLARION bi-weekly, and take part in
other school and outside affairs.
The total student staff comprises about 35 names. We would like to
mention them here individually. It will be with their capable assistance
that the Editors and Business staff will fulfill their tasks. (Look at the
"masthead" below and find out who these are.
Defending the 'Cut' System
Are we students justified for all the criticisms that we make about the
new "cut" system? We have certainly done plenty of complaining.
The faculty must know what they are doing. Have we failed to regu-late
our personal habits so as to interfere with the best interests of our
life? It rather looks that way.
Perhaps, there isn't much missed in "cutting" class just once in a
while. But it is a devastating habit to get into. In the business world,
we make no complaints about getting to work at 7 or 8 a. m. But here
we think it is outrageous to have to be punctual.
No, we don't want to be poured into a mould with the rest—we want
to develop individually. We don't want to conform to everything put up
to us. But is not the matter of discipline worthy of consideration? It
is the man in the world who can meet the "deadline" and be depended
upon that gets ahead. No matter how promising he may be; if he can-not
be trusted, he is soon eliminated.
Our faculty isn't trying to be tyrannical. We believe that they are
seeking the best interests of the students.
May We Say That
Something has happened to our Men's Recreation club and its ping-pong
tourney? Certainly, this should be a worthwhile project. Let's
see something done about it.
We would put in a word of welcome to all of the new students on the
campus. Here's hoping that your stay here will be as,happy and blessed
as ours has been.
The CLARION staff expresses its sympathy to Dorothy Hademann at
the loss of her father.
The Bethel Clarion
BETHEL INSTITUTE
1480 ,North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Official school paper of Bethel Institute.
Published by students bi-weekly except July, August,
and September.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
EDITORIAL STAFF
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS EDITOR Lemuel Petersen
CAMPUS EDITOR Dale Bjork
SPORTS Bernard Hammerbeck, Elna Finstrom, and Vernon Pearson
FEATURES Carol Jane Engwall, Gladys Hanson, Mary Ann Liljenstrom,
Muriel Petersen, Leone Smith, Helen Sorenson, and Viola Waihela.
NEWS REPORTERS.... Glenn Anderson, Betty Danielson, Dalphy Fagerstrom,
Gunnar Hoglund, Archie Johnson, Miriam Johanson, Lloyd Shold,
Sara Mae Swenson, Marvin Toews, Robert Wallin, and Dorothy
Webster.
TYPIST Grace Widen EDITORIAL ADVISOR Miss Enid Platts
BUSINESS STAFF
Stanley Rendahl
Doris Jane Eggleston
Archie Johnson
Dean Emery Johnson
Anderson Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935, at the postoffice at St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the-Act of March 3, 1879.
DEVOTIONAL
By Ned Holmgren •
Ephesians 3:14-21. Concerning
Paul's prayer in the third chapter
of Ephesians, Dr. W. Graham
Scroggie writes : "This is one of
the great Scriptures, the Holy
,Spirit's words of the first order,
and is, perhaps, the most fervent,
comprehensive and sublime prayer
in the Bible." Paul reveals, with his
characteristic depth and intensity
of spirit, the object or goal of his
prayer in the words, ". .. that ye
may be filled unto all the fulness of
God" (vs. 19b).
By his suggestion that every
Christian can be filled to plenty
with all that God is—in His holi-ness,
His love, His power—Paul
stabs our conscience with the sense
of spiritual poverty. And since, it
is God who so freely offers us His
fulness, is it not sin that we make
ourselves poor by refusing what
He offers? Indeed, spiritual pover-ty
is sin! What, then, is the solu-tion
to this particular problem of
sin? It lies in the three-fold formu-la
found within the verses which
precede the statement of the goal:
(1) ". . . that ye may be strength-ened
with power through His Spirit
in the inward man" (vs. 16).
(2) "that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith . . ." (vs.
17).
(3) "and to know the love of
Christ which passeth knowledge
. ." (vs. 19a).
This, therefore, is the proper
equation for a consistent Christian
life: The power of the Spirit and
the presence of Christ plus a knowl-edge
of the love of God equals a
life filled unto all the fulness of
God.
POESY
Winter Wind
To-day I walked against the wind,
Strong and boistrous in its desire
To get somewhere, just any where,
with no destiny in mind.
It just moved on, reckless, un-daunted
in its course;
Unthoughtful of others,
Pushing, forcing, wanting nothing
but its own way.
I could not see it, touch it, nor yet
find it.
I only felt its breath as on it swept,
Unmindful of us humans, bowed,
Submissive to its will.—H. S.
Publications Staff Promotes
(Continued from page 1)
the dinner. Those who presented
toasts were: Carol Jane Engwall,
SPIRE Editor; Gene Nyman,
!SPIRE Advertising manager; and
Lemuel Petersen, Editor of Student
Publications.
Dean Nordell will head the Col-lege
club this coming semester. He
will be assisted by Lloyd 'Shold,
vice-president; Dalphy Fagerstrom,
treasurer; and Annabelle Sherman,
secretary.
STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BUSINESS MANAGER
CIRCULATION MANAGER
CIRCULATION ASSISTANT
BUSINESS, ADVISOR
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Dr. Hagstrom Discloses Life of Many Interests
Team Revamping B. Danielson Uses PREXY
Makes Changes Talent to Advantage
By Dale Bjork
Administrates Bethel
Through 27 Years
Assisted by 57 second-semester
gospel team members, Olaf Nelson,
Leonard Hultgren, Dean Berry,
Rodney Kephart, and Dalphy Fa-gerstrom
will head the work of
witnessing for Jesus Christ as a
phase of the Religious council ac-tivities.
Rogers announced that spe-cial
gospel teams will be going
out Sundays this Spring to con-..
duct services in surrounding
rural churches. These groups
will travel in the gospel team
bus.
Paul Lundgren, treasurer of the
council, indicates that pledges are
being paid quite well. However, he
urges unpaid members to take care
of this soon.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to the members of the
Boarding Club and other students
for the dinner given in our honor;
also to Dr. Hagstrom, Rev. Erikson
and Mr. Fleming for their words of
congratulation.
—Mr. and Mrs. Alex Beck
ONWARD
TO THE HONOR ROLL
EATING
MRS. STRANDY'S ROLLS
1939 St. Anthony Avenue
Midway 8063
Snelling-Como Garage
GLOBE OIL STATION
1282 North Snelling Ave.
Open All Night. Midway 2757
C. G. JOHNSON
Men's Shop—Snappy Toggery
Discount to Students
504 No. Snelling Ave.
near University. Midway 6491
Rudeen Food Market
FAIRWAY FINE FOODS
Free Delivery—NE 7469
Snelling at Thomas
When In MINNEAPOLIS
Make ELIM Your Home
ELIM BAPTIST CHURCH
Madison at 13th N. E.
REV. J. G. JOHNSON, Pastor
C. J. & H. W. ANDERSON
JEWELERS
OPTOM ETRISTS
1573 University Ave.
Midway 9910
Bethel Baptist Church
REV. K. E. BYLEEN
24th St. and 28th Ave. So.
Minneapolis, Minn.
EVERYBODY WELCOME!
In this column we say, "Hats off
to Miss Betty Danielson." She is
the individual who has painted and
sketched the artistic posters which
appear frequently on the bulletin
boards.
Although Betty always has had
a "knack" for art work, she first
learned the technique of drawing
and painting while in junior high
school. She received a more ad-vanced
course in the art depart-ment
at Verona high school.
An incentive to Betty's inter.
est in art came when one of
her sketches was chosen to be
placed over one of the foun-tains
in the halls of her high
school. After this encourage-ment,
she became especially
interested in oil paintings and
painting became her hobby.
Instead of buying canvasses to
paint ion, she learned from an art
teacher how to make her own. She
would take a cardboard of the de-sired
size and then shape and paste
window shading over it. These can-vasses
proved to be splendid back-ground
for her oil paintings.
FAIRGROUND SERVICE
Tire and Battery Service
Motor Tune-up
Carburetor Service
1588 W. Como Ave. NE 9193
MIDTOWN COFFEE SHOP
GOOD EATS
GOOD SERVICE
HOME COOKING
Herschel Roger, Prop.
Lumber for all purposes. Red
Top Insulation. Millwork
of every description.
S. Berglund Lumber Co.
824 Arcade St.
1171 Snelling Ave. No.
COMPLIMENTS
OF
NESEI—SAK
HOWARD'S
TEXACO SERVICE
Snelling Ave. and Breda St.
40 for 1 Marfak Lubrication
DOELTZ DRUG STORE
Midway Pkwy & Pascal Ave.
Drug Needs Photo Finishing
Refreshments
PRESIDENT ARVID G. HAG-STROM
is in the East this week
attending a bimonthly meeting of
the Baptist Foreign Mission board.
He will also speak tonight at the
anniversary of the Monte Clair
church in New Jersey. Hagstrom
attended a Bible teacher's confer-ence
in Chicago and preached in
Cleveland over the weekend.
Do Your Grades
Rank With Average?
Each Junior College student
earned on the average 2 1/2 C's.
Taken on the whole, only one out
of four students earned one A. (Ed.
note: We know some that got more
than one A, so woe be to the rest
of us.) There was an F given for
every seventh student. And there
were enough B's to give one to
each student.
If there had been nine peo-ple,
carrying four classes each,
with an A average, there would
have been no A's for the rest
of us (and plenty of us didn't
get them). Again, if there were
82 people with a straight C re-port
card with four classes
each, the rest of us would
have had to get higher or low-er
marks. I wonder if there
were five people who "flunked"
out completely?—then you and
I don't have to worry about
getting an F.
Almost half the total grades giv-en
at the end of the first semester
in the Junior College were C's.
The number of A's was a 5.08 per-centage
of the total. And to speak
of the worst, the failures were 3.05
per cent of the whole.
In all, there were 689 indi-vidual
class grades recorded in
the office. Of these, 329 were
C's.
The others were as follows: A's,
35; B's, 153; D's, 89; F's, 21. Con,
17; and Inc, 45, according to Miss
Edith Larson.
How did you compare in this?
DUPONT
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The Anderson Press
4209 Standish Ave. — Minneapolis, Minn .
None will doubt that President
Arvid G. Hagstrom has accom-plished
the goal and task which he
has set for his life. In a recent in-terview,
he told of his vital inter-est
in youth, their training and de-velopment.
And he also indicated
how that he had wished early in
life to make it his major contribu-tion—
to help young people.
Our Prexy is a man of versa-tile
interests and activities.
Besides being head of Bethel
Institute for 27 years and in
the ministry for 48 years, he
has led or taken active part in
many another organization.
At present, Dr. Hagstrom is mod-erator
of the Minnesota Baptist
convention and is a member along
with 30 other prominent Baptists
of the American Baptist Foreign
Mission board. He is also a mem-ber
of the Committee for the Co-ordination
of Foreign-speaking Bap-tists,
the American-Scandinavian
Association for the Promotion of
Scandinavian Culture, a similar so-ciety
for the advancement of Swed-ish
culture, and the American-
Swedish Historical society. Our
President is also secretary-treasur-er
and trustee of the Northwestern
Baptist Hospital association and
holds similar positions in a group
to raise funds for needy patients
for the hospitals.
Dr. Hagstrom hopes that
Bethel can secure better physi-cal
equipment and increase its
faculty so as to do a larger
work through correspondence,
Bible courses, Christian culture
classes, and post-graduate
courses for ministers.
Hagstrom's main diversion is
reading in the fields of biography,
history, and psychology. He spends
on the average some 10 to 12 hours
a week at extra reading. He is
also a golf and fishing enthusiast
in the Summer seasons.
In a statement on the Swedish
Baptists, Hagstrom is convinced
that the Conference should remain
intact, so as to do a greater work
and make a larger impact on the
world. However, he urges tolera-tion
and cooperation for all other
groups of Christians for the ad-vancement
of the Kingdom.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Hard Trip and Injuries Produce
Harmful Results For Cagers
Dean Johnson
Some extension will be made in
the curriculum of the social science
department next Fall, Dean Emery
Johnson announced.
He also reports that plans for
the Women's dormitory are pro-gressing.
Originally, the building
was conceived for 32 occupants.
However, this will undoubtedly be
enlarged in view of the 29 women
now rooming in private homes, he
added.
Indians To Engage
In Fighting Games
When our Bethel quintet takes
the floor this Friday evening
against the high-flying Bethany
five, the Indians will have but one
thought in their minds—revenge.
The recent road trip eliminated
the Bethelites from the champion-ship
running, yet the Indians are
still in a position to do plenty of
damage.
On Jan. 20th, the Bethel five was
leading the league undefeated; that
evening they invaded the Bethany
floor and pitched one of the fiercest
battles of the current season. The
Bethanites, led by huge "Slug"
Guldberg, gave the Indians all they
could match and even a little more.
It was in that game that our frosh
star, Gene Nyman, received a foot
injury that benched him for the
season.
The pace was fast and the bas-kets
were bombarded fiercely as
the two teams fought their way
through the 40 minutes of play, but
when the smoke of the final gun
cleared away the Bethanites were
victorious, 53-46, and Bethel had
been dropped from the ranks of
the undefeated.
Tonight the positions are re-versed;
Bethany is still in the
championship race, and Bethel is
just one game out of the running.
The Bethany five will be slight
favorites to twin, but our Adam-coached
Indians will be prepared
for the wildest game of the season,
and a prediction as to the outcome
would be very difficult to foretell.
Friday, Feb. 16, the Albert Lea
quintet will invade the local gym
for a cage contest with the Bethel-ites.
Bethel was an easy victor in
their first engagement, but the Al-bert
Lea team has improved con-siderably
since then and a close
battle is expected.
1940 Spire
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only $1, the business staff an-nounces.
Already 10 collectors
have been appointed to see
each student in school. These
are: Betty Danielson, Dalphy
Fagerstrom, Elizabeth Larson,
Bob Hovinen, Archie Johnson,
Rawlin Johnson, Mary Ann Lil-jenstrom,
Dale Bjork, John
Lindquist, and Gunnar Hog-lund.
This subscription amount
must be paid before Friday,
March 8, to secure a book.
Plans have also been developed
whereby the student body can help
raise money so that a better SPIRE
might be produced. Bethelites are
urged to send letters to their
friends urging them to subscribe.
Form letters are available for this.
For the price of $2 a friend of
Bethel can receive a copy and have
his name printed in a Friendship
section of the annual. However,
others can buy the book for a fee
of $1.25.
To in increase enthusiasm, a
prize of $5 will be awarded
the person in school who turns
over to the SPIRE business
staff the largest income, pro-viding
he raises $20 or more,
the Business manager announc-es.
To all students who re.
ceive $10 or more from their
friends, the annual will be
awarded free.
These letters should be sent im-mediately,
Anderson urges. All
money for books must be returned
by Wednesday, March 20 (just be-fore
Spring vacation). Arlene
Johnson, Lloyd Shold, and Paul
Lundgren have been appointed to
push this drive in the freshman,
sophomore classes, and the Semi-nary,
respectively.
All the letters sent out by
students will be stamped by
the SPIRE staff. However,
they must be turned in at the
Student Publications office for
checking before mailing.
Working also on the SPIRE staff
are: Joyce Johnson, as Assistant
editor; Constance Swanson, Art
editor; Helen Sorenson and Elea-nor
Jacobson, Editorial assistants;
and Clifford Bjorklund, photogra-phy.
The business staff further in-cludes:
Gene Nyman, Advertising
manager; Doris Molander, Adver-tising
assistant; Muriel Petersen,
Circulation manager; and Sara Mae
Swenson, staff stenographer. Fac-ulty
advisers for the production are
Cagerettes
Match Here
Friday night the women hoop-sters
will play the Minnesota Farm
school coeds here in a prelimini-nary
game to the varsity match
with Bethany.
Led by Opal Palmquist, who
scored 6 points, the Bethelites won
their first game on January 30,
16-14, at the Minnesota Agricul-tural
school. Elizabeth Larson and
Marie Larson swished two buckets
to tie for second scoring honors.
The cagerettes also played the
St. Paul Weit Side Neighborhood
house team recently, losing, 19-7.
Mary Ann Liljenstrom and Marie
Larson led the Bethel scorers.
Miss Enid Platts and Dean Emery
Johnson.
This year's graduates must
be photographed and have their
prints in by March 7, Miss
Engwall announces. Arrange-ments
will be made for this
soon.
The staff feels competent to put
out a SPIRE that Bethel will be
proud of. Work on the publication
is moving along satisfactorily, ac-cording
to Petersen. However, the
cooperation of the whole student
body is anticipated to alleviate dif-ficulties.
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By Bernard Hammerbeck
Wednesday, January 31st marked the end of a disastrous road trip for
the Bethel Indians as they bowed to a strong Nettleton Commercial
college team at Sioux Falls, S. Dak. Other games on the tour were
conference engagements with Tracy J. C. and Worthington J. C.
The squad arrived at Tracy late Monday afternoon, Jan. 29th, and
the evening's tilt with
Tracy J. C. showed the
results of the day's trip.
The Bethelites were
unable to hit the hoop
with any sort of accu-racy
and retired at the
half with a 4 point de-ficit.
The second half
showed no improve-ment
on the part of the
Bethelites and the Tra-cy
quintet increased
their lead to six points
for a 52-46 victory.
Leading scorer for the
Indians was Don Johnson with 20
points.
Tuesday evening's encounter
with the league-leading Worthing- •
ton five proved to be a fiercely con-tested
battle even though the Blue-jays
won by a substantial margin.
The Worthington club was rangy
and well stocked with reserves
while the Bethel five was badly
handicapped by the injury to Cap-tain
Don Johnson. The first half
started fast and the Bluejays re-tired
at the half with the score in
their favor, 28-27; however as the
second half progressed the reserve
strength of the Bluejays overcame
the fast wilting Bethelites and the
Worthington team won by a score
of 59-43.
The Wednesday night engage-ment
at the Coliseum in Sioux Falls
proved to be too much for the Beth-elites
as a rangy squad from Net-tleton
Commercial college swamped
the Indians, 64-26. The Bethel squad
was noticeably tired from the gru-elling
trip, and their lack of height
proved to be a great handicap as
the tall N.C.C. lads piled up a huge
lead.
Personnel of the traveling party
included Coach Bill Adam, Man-ager
Francis Otto, Driver Bertil
Friberg, and eight varsity players:
Del Peterson, Johnson, Gus Ferre,
Gordie Peterson, Stan Paulson, Bob
Hovinen, Lowell Marquardt, and
Bernie Hammerbeck.
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